DCCC Statement on Trump’s Visit to Iowa Putting Spotlight on Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ Failed Economy

“Zach Nunn, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Donald Trump promised Iowans they would fix the economy. Instead under their leadership, farmers are struggling due to reckless tariffs, health care costs are skyrocketing and clinics are closing due to massive Medicaid cuts, and everything from groceries to electricity bills is getting more expensive. Nunn and Miller-Meeks put tax cuts for billionaires ahead of getting costs down for middle-class Iowa families, and voters will hold them accountable this November.”

Reminder of Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn’s Agenda:

• Rising prices that are hurting Iowa working families desperate for relief, while billionaires get yet another handout.
  • KCRG: Report ranks Iowa as state with the worst economy
  • New York Times: In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President’s Policies Have Hit Hard
• The largest cuts to Medicaid in American history that will rip health care away from more than 62,000 Iowans, with premiums already rising for 136,000 Iowans and rural hospitals and health clinics being forced to close their doors.
  • NPR: Farmers are about to pay a lot more for health insurance
  • Ottumwa Courier: Political leaders react as Ottumwa loses primary care clinic
  • Des Moines Register: Many Iowans are going to see their health insurance premiums go way up. Here’s how much
  • Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa farmers say the end of federal health care tax credits will hit their budgets
• Total support for reckless tariffs crippling Iowa’s farm economy, ripping markets away from farmers, and increasing prices for everyone.
  • KCRG: Iowa’s economy will feel more impacts than other states from tariffs says economist
  • CBS News: Iowa farmers’ incomes to decline amid trade war, no farm bill allocations, report finds
  • Des Moines Register: With falling profits, Iowa farmers facing ‘extreme financial distress,’ more bankruptcies
• Failure to pass a new Farm Bill or year-round E15 leaving Iowa farmers without markets and strapping them with more insecurity.
  • Iowa Corn Growers Association: Iowa Corn Growers Furious with New Development on E15
  • KWWL: Iowa farmers urge modernized Farm Bill for long-term stability
• Higher electricity prices and fewer good-paying union jobs after voting to kill energy tax credits.
  • Politico: In windy Iowa, a GOP lawmaker faces a reckoning over Trump’s clean energy war
  • Des Moines Register: Iowa’s winter heating bills are expected to spike. Find out how much

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